parasitic son

When the night fell, Li Wen came to the Sanatorium 35 area next to the Yequ Mountain. This time he brought two drug ration lists, which he took a lot of effort to get.

The staff of the 35th area of ​​​​the recuperation said that the alien he picked up seemed to have woken up.Li Wen hurried into the room to take a look.

Sitting on the bed was a Homo sapiens, who should be the younger type of Homo sapiens.He has smooth short hair and soft brown eyes.His skin looked very soft, so delicate that it would break if touched.He looked even more fragile than a young larva.Li Wen has never quite understood how such a creature could evolve into an intelligent species while surrounded by natural enemies.As a Xiyiqi, he has a hard chitin shell, which is enough to resist a certain degree of external impact. He can't imagine how he can survive without this shell.

Li Wen was very curious about what form this Homo sapiens saw himself in.He was once a bazaar candidate, and he had an adapter implanted in his body, which means that he has leapt into the upper class of Siqi, and will also fit in the eyes of aliens with their aesthetics.In the eyes of this Homo sapiens, he must also be in a strange and weak form that is bald and hairless.

The name of this Homo sapiens is Liu Xingquan, and his speech is a kind of sound wave that vibrates harmoniously.He also has a chicken.The chicken looked distressed and its feathers were quite messy.I don't know if it was his illusion, but Li Wen felt that the chicken was glaring at him from the moment he entered the door.

Liu Xingquan said that he encountered an accident during the tour, and he is very grateful for the care here, they will not stay here for a long time.

"Okay." Li Wen smiled, "I work here, if you have any difficulties, you can come to me."

When Li Wen left the room, he heard the Homo sapiens whispering to the chicken.

Strange Homo sapiens, he thought.

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When Li Wen walked out of the dormitory, the shuttle not far away was flying in the air, leaving thin white lines in the air.

"There are new mutants coming," he thought.

The crimson mutation sweeping the Xiyiqi people has been going on for many years.According to the queen's order, the vicinity of Nocturne Mountain was designated as a crimson mutant convalescent area.Every day, you can see the white mist constantly rising from the tarmac in the distance.That's the antiseptic sprayer on the tarmac, and every patient who arrives here gets a baptism of sanitizer.

Even though the officials continue to publicize that the crimson mutation is not an infectious disease, this cleansing and baptism is undoubtedly a psychological healing ritual.

Every mutant who is sent to a sanatorium will go through medical tests and be divided into different areas according to the severity of the mutation.Some mildly ill mutants live like ordinary people, while other moderately ill patients are isolated in a closed environment, and severe patients will be directly subjected to gene correction.

Li Wen has been working here since the failure of Bazalu selection a few years ago.After a period of near-desperate loss, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to his new job, taking care of mutants one after another, and witnessed the departure of familiar and unfamiliar faces one by one.His emotions have all but dried up.All words are empty in front of the crimson mutation, and there are no surprising and rare things here, only helpless deaths one by one.

Ah, there is a rare thing today. A Homo sapiens from another planet, Liu Xingquan, came, and he also brought a chicken.With such a rare guest, Xiao Wei might be very happy.

Red-yellow smoke rose in the distance, which was the volatiles from the cremation furnace.Through the special sensors of the Xiyiqi people, he could hear the song of the dead in the smog.The words of Xiyiqi people are smells composed of countless fine particles. When burned at high temperature, hundreds of millions of dust particles rise and float with crackling sound, turning into a cloud of smoke like mist.In the auditory system of Xiyiqi people, this is the song of death.

The song of the dead that the corpses of the dead make sounds just like a vague hum, but has a beautiful, soft melody, like an ethereal chant.Whenever the body is burned, the staff here are always intoxicated, and forward this wonderful melody collection to the neighboring Xiyiqi people.This is a special way of mourning for the deceased by the Xiyiqi people.

"Mr. Li Wen!!" A larva ran over in a panic. It was Xiao Wei, who had not experienced the first molt yet. It was the closest child to him here.

"Mr. Li Wen!" Xiaowei shouted, "Ovitz was beaten!!"

"what happened?"

"They took the medicine away!!" Xiao Wei's breath was full of tears.

Upon hearing this, Li Wen quickly turned around and ran towards the square.

He saw Ovitz half sitting on the ground from a distance.He heard the sound of Li Wen running and turned around slowly.Li Wen couldn't help but sucked in a breath of cold air.Ovitz originally had a smooth and hard carapace, but now there are many depressions on it, and one of his joint limbs was directly broken, hanging crookedly in the air.

"Li Wen, I'm sorry." Ovitz's voice was full of distress.

"what happened??"

"The medicine was taken away." Ovitz lowered his head, "It's from District 26. I'm sorry, they have too many people."

"...Have they all been robbed?"

"There's only so much left." Ovitz stretched out another intact jointed limb, and there were two small medicine bottles on his paw.

"The ration list I applied for should be able to take two boxes."

"They were all taken away," Ovitz said. "There were so many of them that even the security guards came with them. They had weapons in their hands. I'm sorry, but I really want to keep some more."

Li Wen looked at Ovitz's severed limb, it was completely broken, which meant that he had to undergo grafting and prosthetic surgery.Not only the arthropod, Li Wen saw more shocking wounds from him, and his intact compound eye couldn't see any brilliance of functioning, he even smelled the fishy smell of Ovitz's damaged internal organs.These bastards have no hands at all.An uncontrollable anger welled up in his heart, and as soon as he turned around, he was pulled back by Ovitz.

"where do you want to go?"

"There must be an explanation for this." Li Wen said, "This is the drug ration list I applied for."

"It's useless." Ovitz whispered, "The people in District 26 have backers. They have already bribed the security guards of Jishan House. It's useless. Not only our district, but other districts are robbing each other. District 26 I have never been punished. The petitions in this park have been sent out countless times, and no one has paid attention to us." Ovitz raised his head and smiled bitterly, "After all, everyone is dying."

Li Wen fell into silence, he knew he was right.

The last two bottles of medicine that Ovitz managed to keep were the rejuvenation potions.It is a medicine developed by the Saidi people, which can effectively alleviate the crimson mutation of the Xiyiqi people.It is an absurd joke that the cure for a terminal illness of a race is in the hands of a hostile race.The Xiyiqi people have long had many speculations and doubts about this, but in the face of the increasing number of mutant patients, they had no choice but to hold their noses and cooperate with these fat-headed fish.

But the problem is - the import quantity of rejuvenating agents is too small.Because the synthesis of the rejuvenation agent requires an extremely rare and rare element, domoboloselenium, which is difficult to mine, and the mining process is closely related to the seabed environmental protection of the Saidi home planet.Even with high profits, the Saidi people cannot suddenly increase production.

Under the queen's order, the relief centers and sanatoriums in various regions have implemented strict drug rationing, but in fact, facing the surge of mutants, the rationing of rejuvenating agents can be said to be a drop in the bucket.There are countless mutants waiting for life-saving medicine in each district, so cross-district snatching has become commonplace.

What Ovitz said is the truth, once it is taken away, it can never be taken back.

I finally applied for the ration list, Li Wen thought, now there are only two bottles left.

This means that he has to abandon some, no, most of the mutants.He has always longed to alleviate their pain, relieve their illness, and even save them.However, now he can only abandon them, and treat these compatriots suffering in hell as dust on the ground, just like those healthy Xiyiqi people living in the city.

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"It's done."

Xiao Wei opened his paws, and carefully caught the capsule that Li Wen poured to him from the bottle. "One, two..." Xiao Wei said innocently, "This time there are only three."

Yes.Li Wen thought bitterly, if those two boxes hadn't been snatched away, Xiao Wei should have a small half bottle now.Xiaowei is a patient with the crimson mutation, and it is currently a mild patient.Right now the medicine is not enough, so he had to take out three pills for it.

"I'll keep it safe."

"No, it's not preservation. Even though it's less, you still have to eat."

"Okay." Xiao Wei smiled.It carefully put the capsule in the small blue bag (given to it by its keeper), and bounced away.

Li Wen hopes to witness Xiao Wei's second molt.The current Xiaowei is a little larva without even a gender.Only after undergoing the second molt, Xiaowei will reveal its true gender and become a sterile male or sterile female, which is the fate of ordinary Xiyiqi people except the royal family.

When Xiaowei was sent here, the feeder sent a cleaner, which was specially used to clean up the debris on the body of the molted larvae.Xiaowei hid the cleaner in a drawer in his room, just to use it one day in the future.

But will there really be such a day?

The next medicine, Li Wen, had to be distributed one by one, and he had to skip the mutants who were about to enter the serious stage.He has done this countless times in the past.At first he was heartbroken, but later he became numb.He walked quickly past the hopeful eyes of his compatriots, ruthlessly depriving them of the chance to continue to live.

The medicine will run out soon.

Li Wen came to the lounge, he took off his clothes, and began to scan his body.

No no.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Li Wen breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that he didn't have the crimson mutation now.

Regardless, this is good news.

"Excuse me..." The harmonious voice came from behind him again.

Homo sapiens Liu Xingquan came, and when he saw him naked, his face turned red, "Excuse me, what are you doing?"

I wonder how I look to him. "I'm checking whether I have mutated myself." Li Wen replied.

He saw the puzzled expression in the boy's eyes, so he gave him a brief introduction.

This is a genetic mutation disease with no known cause, and it is only rampant among the Xiyiqi race.At present, only rejuvenating agents can only prolong the lives of these patients.

"I see." Liu Xingquan nodded, his eyes showed sympathy, "So, this place is a hospital? Are you the doctor here?"

"almost."

"Oh." Liu Xingquan looked past Li Wen, and he looked out the window, "Who's that over there?"

Li Wen turned his head, red and yellow smoke was rising from the distant mountains.In the fog that obscured the sky, he could see certain volatile particles floating and twinkling like stars blinking in the night sky. "That's Yequ Mountain, the place where Xiyiqi's first queen descended."

"Is that smoke burning something?"

"That's burning the corpses of mutants." He replied, "Night Song Mountain has a special meaning to us Xiyiqi people. Singing the song of the dead beside the mountain is like returning to the embrace of the Holy Mother."

"Song of the Dead?"

Li Wen thought that the communication system of the young Homo sapiens in front of him was vibrating with sound waves, and he couldn't feel the fine particles floating in the air.What a pity, he thought, that Homo sapiens are like blind people, who cannot fully perceive the bright and colorful world, nor can they hear the mysterious and soft singing.

"It's a smell that only we Xiyiqi people can feel." He explained to the boy with a trace of sympathy.

"Oh." Liu Xingquan nodded, "Those are all patients here, please forgive me."

condolences?

This kind of thing happens every day.He had long forgotten what grief was.

Soon, it will be the turn of the patients I gave up today, he thought.

Liu Xingquan's words interrupted his sadness, "Brother Li Wen, can I call you that?"

"can."

"Excuse me, do you know a Homo sapiens named Yan Zhen?"

"I don't know." Li Wen shook his head in denial.

Homo sapiens looked a little disappointed and lowered his head. He thought for a while and asked again: "Excuse me, are you short of manpower here? Can Captain Madara and I help here?"

"Of course, we have always been short of volunteers here." Li Wen was stunned for a moment, "Who is Captain Madara?"

Liu Xingquan raised the chicken, and the chicken glared at him angrily.

Well, it's normal for pets to have names.

Li Wen smiled and said: "Okay. It's just that you seem to be going bald."